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BumWings
BumWings is a unibody ergo keyboard by tubbytwins. Another board based on the RP2040 Zero controller.
Published January 11, 2023
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BumWings – the name isn't meant to be pejorative or insulting – by tubbytwins has an un-split angled layout that has columnar stagger with moderate pinky splay and features dual inverted T-clusters as well as thumb key clusters.
The author has been using a TypeMatrix for nearly two decades, and also an Ergodox-EZ, but had some issues.
So this is my first attempt at designing a keyboard. It works well for me, hopefully others will find it useful or interesting – tubbytwins.
In the repo there are two three variants with the same layout but with supports of different development boards: one for the RP2040 Zero, another one with a Seeed Xiao footprint, and counting.
The Xiao one uses shift registers.
Resources
Published on Wed 11th Jan 2023. Featured in KBD #111 (source).
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